Ranking the Pac-12 after Week 2

Remember: These rankings are not projections or expectations. They are only a reflection of the body of work to this point. They will change. Often. #USC #Pac12

We present to you our Pac-12 rankings after Week 2 of the 2022 college football season.

Rankings need to be done properly. Better to have no rankings at all until November, so that we can just evaluate teams for two months and then — when the bodies of work come into focus, and we see who’s really good and who’s actually not so good — we can make proper assessments of teams.

I would much rather have college football analysts not rank teams until November than trying to rank them each week. You can see how the value of a ranking changes very quickly. Notre Dame is top a top-10 team, but when Ohio State beat the Fighting Irish, that was perceived as a top-10-quality win. Ohio State should therefore not be ranked in the top five.

These are not projections for the end of the season. These are reflections of what teams have done right now. We proceed in that vein with Pac-12 rankings for the new week: